When Lemon is sweeter than Sugar!

Ever considered the statement that I gave as the title to this post of mine? - Can Lemons be sweeter than Sugar? Well with a big laughter, the reader would say, "Man! Are you gone nuts?! Sugar tastes sweet and lemons taste sour! What sort of question is this? How can lemons be sweeter than sugar itself?!" And then I would say, just like I always say, "Its just the matter how you perceive things!"

You didn't get my point?! Wait, give me a chance to explain! :D

What if we make lemonade from lemons? Would it then be sweet? And you'd say, "Yes! But you added sugar to it!" But still, it would be sweeter than sugar, because it would have more qualities attached to it, like its refreshing behaviour! The sweetness here is not the one you see as the "Sweet taste". Now sweetness gets the meaning as - "Better".

Now that makes lemon to be sweeter than sugar. When I was a kid, I used to watch a cartoon show about the life of Christopher Columbus. In that there was one scene wherein, once Columbus discovered America, in the royal party, a guest said, "You did nothing unique! When Earth is round, then what new have you done!?!" Well, just recall that nobody used to support his notion of round Earth! People were too blindly believing in Earth to be flat. Then Columbus took a boiled egg, and asked the man to make it stand upright on the table. The man tried but failed and in turn declared that it was impossible. Then Columbus, applied some pressure on the egg, breaking it a li'l, but it stood upright on the table then! The man was startled and his ego so badly hurt. He got angry and said,"Huh! You broke it! By breaking it, anybody could have done it!" It was then when Columbus replied, "Things seem to be simple when you have the answer, else they seem to be impossible. And when someone gives the answer, people are not ready to accept it and give different reasons to prove it wrong, somehow!" (Now don't ask where did that story came from in the middle, I told it as I just changed the lemon's figure and that could have raised such an issue!)

We know that sweetness attracts everyone, and being sour/bitter turns people off. But what if the sweetness is just a false flattery that camouflages in itself some selfish, and destructive motives? Well such sweetness is of no use! And what if the bitterness/sourness got in itself tonnes of things for your betterment? Just like one's parents. Our parents are sometimes angry on us, but how many of us understand that their this bitterness is for our betterment? And when we grow up, we realize all of it. Now doesn't such bitterness becomes sweet?!

So you see, its not the question of the name/appearance. Its the question of what the thing actually is. Our abilities do make us what we are, but sometimes more than them, its our choices which make us who we are! Perceptions can make world too different than it seems to us. Perception may change everything. Always remember, if a Rose is a beautiful flower, it has got thorns all over its stem!

Good Day!! ^_^